Hoops (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jan 1996)NOMINATED for 1997 'BEST SHORT STORY' EDGAR"In the Bleak Midwinter was nominated for a (cough-cough) prestigious Nevermore Award. Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers awards–some might say inflicts upon–the Nevermore raven "...to real authors for inadvertent achievement in a variety of categories neither dreamt nor dared by MWA." My book was up for a "Coming Attractions" award for the detecting couple most in need of, in the words of Partner Maggie Griffin, "getting their ashes hauled." However, I ducked the bullet on this one–that is to say–I lost out to the talented and much-honored S.J. Rozan, who has kept Lydia Chin and Bill Smith apart for eight books at last count." – Julia Spencer‑Fleming(Agatha, Barry, Gumshoe, Macavity & Nero Awards winner – with permission)

"Actually, the award I'm proudest of is the Nevermore from Partners in Crime, one of the independent mystery bookstores in New York City. The Nevermore, given the night before the Edgar banquet in the spring, is sort of the anti-Edgar. I won the "Hauled Ashes Award" for the fictional couple most in need of getting it on." – S.J. Rozan

The Crime Writers' Chronicle:
How I Got To Be Sam Cabot; July 22, 2013"...I've co-written a paranormal thriller set in Rome. Right in that sentence are four things I never thought I'd do. Co-write, paranormal, thriller, Rome...I was swept up in a perfect storm..."Books to Die For (non-fiction), ed. John Connolly, Declan Burke
ISBN: 978-1444756500; HC; Hodder & Stoughton (Aug 2012);
ISBN: 978-1451696578; HC; Atria/Emily Bestler (Oct 2012)True confessions by John Gregory Dunne (1977), H&S pp.421‑426; Atria ~p.315"...about men and women who've slid into hopelessly compromised lives...how the small concessions they've made over time...have corrupted their souls; or they don't admit it..."The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing (non-fiction), Michelle Spring, Laurie R. King
ISBN: 978-1408131220; Trade pbk; Bloomsbury (Aug 2012)
ISBN: 978-1408166161; eBook (EPUB) & 978-1408166154 (PDF); Bloomsbury (Oct 2012)Part 2: Tips and Tales — Categorisation and its discontents, pp.150‑153"...The best genre books carry their full measure of literary value – character, setting, theme, elegant prose – and, in addition, reverbrate with..."
The Femmes Fatales: On the Road Again;
May 10, 2012 (3rd of 3)"...The most exciting thing ... is the moment when someone stops thinking of her- or himself as a butcher, baker or candlestick maker who writes, and becomes a writer with a day job. It's a mental shift all writers need to make..."
The Femmes Fatales: Public Speaking;
April 19, 2012 (2nd of 3)"...Very little is as dispiriting as walking into a bookstore or library and seeing four people ... But .. those four people really, really want to hear you .. For that hour you pull up a chair, sit in a circle, and talk to those four people about books and writing..."In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero (non-fiction),
ed. Otto Penzler; ISBN: 978-1935618577; Trade pbk; Smart Pop (April 2012), pp 163‑172
Who is Silverman, What is She?"Ah, Susan Silverman the girlfriend we all love to hate. Has ever a fictional character ... caused such ..."
The Femmes Fatales welcome S.J. Rozan!;
March 13, 2012"...The creatures of our imaginations, and their stories, retreat in the face of the demands of the physical world..."
NYT: Where the Secrets Were Kept, Real Estate Section, Sunday, February 19, 2012, p.1In the opinion of S. J. Rozan ... hidden details are especially cherished by New Yorkers. 'In this city, everybody’s an architecture critic,' Ms. Rozan said. 'And so a secret about a building is a secret New Yorkers can get behind.'
Ghost Stories Live!, October 30, 2011
second link ·
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Two shows:
first show intermission (4:25/@1:20 video) ·
second show intermission (5:00)
The Center for Fiction (Mercantile Library), October 6, 2011
In Conversation: SJ Rozan and Alafair Burke
1.
SJ (6:14 video) ·
2.
Alafair (7:00) ·
3.
both (12:49/@5:15) ·
4.
both (25:55)
Ms. Rozan's blog post about being the Champion of the Literary Death Match, Shanghai, Ep.1, March 2011... My team of Shanghai-dwelling expats was stellar ...
The Center for Fiction,
Craftwork Lecture, November 9, 2010
part 1 (14:48 video) ·
part 2 (13:48) ·
part 3 (10:57)
Foreward to Empty Ever After, by Reed Farrel Coleman; ISBN: 978-1935415190; Trade pbk; Busted Flush Press (Oct 2010)"...Coleman writes about the shape of the world...puts it into high relief... the same stuff we're living with and living through and we recognize it. That's what art does, isn't it?..."

Award Annals: Mystery/Suspense
Most Honored Authors, left column, near top
Literature-Map: the closer two writers are, the more likely a reader will like both.SJ Rozan and
S.J. Rozan
(her name's been entered different ways)

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Reading and Writing Podcast, by Jeff Rutherford, August 7, 2013
Sam Cabot interview – Episode 125 (mp3 - 21:24)
NYP – Air of Suspense: Best-selling author S.J. Rozan’s cozy Village pad, by Micki Siegel, April 18, 2012
The article is in the Real Estate section of the Thursday, April 19, 2012, issue of the paper.... she’d found the perfect apartment. "The first thing was the light. It was noon on a December day, and the light poured in ... Then, I saw the fireplace, and I thought, 'Wow!' Next, the woman who was showing me the apartment said: 'Would you like to see the other room?' I'd thought it was a studio. I said, 'There's another room?' And then I saw the built-in bookcases and I knew: 'This is perfect." ...
BookCast,
interview (18:46) by Sam Clay, April 2012
(prelude to author visit to Fairfax County's Byrd Library)
S.J. Rozan : Crime Writing and Other Fiction, Long and Short, by Elana Centor, posted Apr 3, 2012
Video interview about value of workshops for writers.

If you only click one link, try this BookBaby interview:

BookBaby,
interview (58:18) by Brian Felsen (BookBaby pres.), posted April 1, 2012
Taped Sunday morning, June 12, 2011, at California Crime Writers Conference.
Start – Ghost Hero; 1:33 – writing from different points of view; 3:55 – 'heroes' and her stories; 7:42 – how do separate heroes translate to 20 & 21st centuries; 13:17 – how does she see different genres, why readers favor certain genres; 18:14 – double standard in literary fiction, how it drops the ball; 23:34 – how to keep book from 'sagging in the middle', how to develop out from themes; 29:01 – Iterative revision process; 32:37 – use of beta readers, writing group; 39:34 – how she migrated to full time writer; 44:15 – were there problems w/o job security and less pay; 47:33 – recommendation to writers with day jobs; 51:06 – how digital revolution changed her writing life; 55:30 – how ebooks changed 'the conversation' with publishers
The Writer's Room, interview by host Jane Cleland, January 2012
Part 1 (14:56) (starts at 0:20/ends at 13:17),
Part 2 14:43 (starts at 0:17/ends at 14:25)
WBGO 88.3 FM, Ghost Hero interview by Andrew Meyer, November 4, 2011
Full interview (26:52) ·
interview excerpt (10:43)Literary Death Match:
Shanghai Ep.1, March 2011 Champion!... mistress of mysteries, Rozan regaled a packed house with a shiver-inducing noir tale of ... Rozan's unflinching blood-soaked scarefest ...
WBGO 88.3 FM, On The Line interview by Andrew Meyer, December 17, 2010
book interview (10:56) ·
additional (9:37)
Sisters in Crime blog,
Things You Don't Know About S.J. Rozan, November 8, 2010...SinC: Most embarrassing moment? SJR: Are you kidding? This is the internet. No way...
Nominated for 2009 Career Achievement Award in Mystery and Suspense by
Romantic Times.
Pen on Fire,
interview, by Barbara Marco-Barrett, June 24, 2009
Ms. Rozan's segment is from 2:13 to 27:56 of file (Monica Bhide is the second half)
Originally broadcast on KUCI 88.9 FM, Irvine, CAMystery Scene Magazine:
Complexity and The City, by Oline Cogdill, Issue 108, Winter 2009, pp 30-32... For the past four years, every morning – rain or shine ... she walks ... to the Hudson River ... It's a time of contemplation and, as she watches the ducks, the workers or the walkers, a time 'to get myself moving and get into gear'
...
WBGO 88.3 FM, Shanghai Moon interview by Andrew Meyer, February 27, 2009
Full interview (30:39) ·
interview excerpt (9:04)
Ed Gorman Blog:
Pro-File: S.J. Rozan, Feb 1, 2009
Type M for Murder (blog):
Violence and Crime Fiction, by Debby Atkinson, June 11, 2008... I had the good fortune to go to the Edgar Award Ceremony this May, and had the further good luck to chat with S.J. Rozan. I admire her both as an author and as a very insightful woman. We were talking about how we ... prefer crime fiction over true crime. As I was pondering why this was the case, S.J. said, 'Fiction just seems more real.'...

Ms. Rozan's name appears in these books:
(Many of the following hardcovers have also been published in paperback)

The Tell-Tale Art: Poe in Modern Popular Culture, by Christine A. Jackson; pp 30‑32,192,200(index)
ISBN: 978-0786463183; Trade Pbk; Mcfarland (Oct 2011)...Rozan is articulate about the writing process...Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction, ed. Maxim Jakubowski; pp 236,254(index)
ISBN: 978-1847737014; Trade pbk; New Holland Publishers Ltd (Sept 2010)... S.J. Rozan is one of the best chroniclers of contemporary New York in her outstanding...A Companion to the American Short Story, ed. Alfred Bendixen, James Nagel; pp 432,515(index)
ISBN: 978-1405115432; Hardcover; Wiley-Blackwell (March 2010)...and S.J. Rozan, the last four of whom have done the seemingly unthinkable: challenged the premise that the hard-boiled style is only for men...The New York Times Book of New York: 549 Stories of the People, the Events and the Life of the City – Past and Present, ed. James Barron; pp 270-271
ISBN: 978-1-57912-801-2; Hardcover; Black Dog & Leventhal (May 2009)Mean Streets: Crime : The Imfamous : Murder
"New York Numb" by Ms. Rozan, reprinted from NYT story of Mar 12, 2006Novel Ideas : Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process, by Barbara Shoup, Margaret-Love Denman; pp 23,34,276‑89,331‑2,TOC,vii(preface)
ISBN: 978-0-8203-3279-6; Paperback; Univ of GA Press; 2nd ed (March 2009)Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction, ed. Marieke Krajenbrink, Kate M. Quinn; p 153
ISBN: 978-90-420-2529-5; Paperback; Rodopi (Jan 2009)...the personal element, including family ties, is becoming more and more intrusive. In S.J. Rozan's Chinese American Lydia Chin novels, for instance, Lydia's mother is a constant presence, while her brothers put in an occasional appearance.The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists : Insider Secrets from Top Writers, by Andrew McAleer; pp 15,46,96
ISBN: 978-1-59869-589-2; Paperback; Adams Media (Oct 2008)Write what you know. But not what you know on the outside. What you know on the inside...Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, by Daniel A. Bell; footnote 87, p 308
ISBN: 0691123071; Hardcover; Princeton University Press (July 2006)"...Chinese employers...What is clear is that Filipina FDWs often develop warm, maternal‑like feelings for employers' children. This kind of sentiment is well depicted in fictitious form in S.J. Rozan's 'Reflecting the Sky'..."Authors & Artists for Young Adults, Volume 66, ed. Dwayne Hayes (pp 119-124)
ISBN: 0787666548, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. Biography contains portraitPolitics and the Private Eye: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Hardboiled Tradition, by Karen Connolly-Lane; pp 11,121,123,list of works cited
Thesis submitted at the University of Minnesota (June 2006)S.J. Rozan's story, Absent Friends (2004) ... raises prescient questions about the nature of heroism and of truth in a time of culture-wide grief.

by Thomas Kaufman in Steal the Show
ISBN: 978-0-312-54632-8; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (July 2011)
Many thanks to the folks who helped me ... From the community of writers: ..., S.J. Rozan, ...
by Andrea Knutson in American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James
ISBN: 978-0-19-537092-8; Hardcover; Oxford University Press, USA (Dec 2010)
... cannot imagine the years it has taken to write this book without friendships old and new. I thank ... S.J. Rozan ... conversations have supported life and work ...
by Carl J. Stein in Greening Modernism: Preservation, Sustainability, and the Modern Movement
ISBN: 978-0-393-73283-2; Hardcover; W. W. Norton (Nov 2010)
... In particular, my partners..., as well as Shira Rosan and ..., who have been here since the beginning...
by Thomas Kaufman in Drink the Tea
ISBN: 978-0-312-60730-2; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (March 2010)
... Many thanks to ...; S.J. Rozan; ...
by Steven Torres in Blackout in Precinct Puerto Rico: Book Five
ISBN: 978-0-312-32113-0; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (March 2010)
... Among those who have encouraged me professionally are fellow writers such as S.J. Rozan, ...
by Elizabeth Zelvin in Death Will Help You Leave Him
ISBN: 0312582668; Hardcover; Minotaur (Oct 2009)
... and our master artist S.J. Rozan, for inspired critique; ...
by Russell Atwood in Losers Live Longer
ISBN: 978-0-8439-6121-8; Paperback; Hard Case Crime (Aug 2009)
... S.J. Rozan for her tough-as-nails help at the finish line; ...
by Gabriel Cohen in Neptune Avenue
ISBN: 978-0-312-38061-8; Hardcover; Minotaur Books (April 2009)
... I'm also grateful for earlier helpful critiques by ... and SJ Rozan. ...
by Gabriel Cohen in Storms Can't Hurt the Sky: A Buddhist Path Through Divorce
ISBN: 978-1-60094-050-7; Trade pbk; Da Capo Press (March 2008)
... Thanks to a number of wise and helpful readers of portions or the whole of this manuscript, including ... S.J. Rozan ...
by Michael Wiley in The Last Striptease
ISBN: 978-0-312-37250-7; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (Oct 2007)
... SJ Rozan has read my work the way I hope all will read it and has shown me great kindness and generosity of spirit. ...
by Charlaine Harris in All Together Dead
ISBN: 978-0-441-01494-1; Hardcover; Ace (May 2007)
... I also need to thank S.J. Rozan, who was happy to answer my questions about architecture, though the vampire part was a distinct shock. ...
by Qiu Xiaolong in A Case of Two Cities
ISBN: 978-0-312-35985-0; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (Nov 2006)
...; S.J. Rozan, with her generous friendship; and...
by Steven Torres in Missing in Precinct Puerto Rico: Book Four
ISBN: 978-0-312-32111-6; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (Oct 2006)
...some of the finer points in the book must be attributed to ... SJ Rozan ... and ... My thanks to them all ...
by Jonathan Santlofer in The Killing Art: A Novel of Suspense
ISBN: 0060541075; Hardcover; William Morrow (Oct 2005)
..., S.J. Rozan-friends and supporters all; ...
by Robert J. Hughes in Late and Soon: A Novel
ISBN: 078671588X; Hardcover; Carroll & Graf (Oct 2005)
I am grateful for all who helped me in the writing of my novel and the reading of my manuscript, including S.J. Rozan, ...
by Jonathan Santlofer in Color Blind: A Novel of Suspense
ISBN: 0060541040; Hardcover; William Morrow (Oct 2004)
..., S.J. Rozan, for her generous guidance through the mystery world; ...
by Rhys Bowen in For the Love of Mike
ISBN: 0312313004; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (Dec 2003)
With thanks to New Yorkers S.J. Rozan and ... for believing in my books, ...
by J. L. Abramo in Clutching at Straws
ISBN: 0312308493; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (March 2003)
... Thanks to ... S.J. Rozan, and ... for their advice and support. ...
by Nancy Richler in Your Mouth Is Lovely
ISBN: 0060096772; Hardcover; Ecco (Nov 2002)
... The following people read ... early drafts of this novel and offered helpful observations and criticisms ... Shira Rosan ...
by Wendi Lee in Habeas Campus
ISBN: 031226139X; Hardcover; St. Martin's Minotaur (March 2002)
... thank the following people: ... S.J. Rozan ...
by Lawrence W. Raphael in Criminal Kabbalah
ISBN: 1580231098; Trade pbk; Jewish Lights Pub (April 2001)
... wonderful mystery writers, S.J. Rozan ... To these ... writers I owe many thanks ...
by Tom Savage in The Inheritance
ISBN: 0525944230; Hardcover; Dutton Adult (Aug 1998)
... I particularly thank ... and the Friday Night Club: ... and S.J. (Shira) Rozan ...
by Jennifer Crichton in Family Reunion
ISBN: 0761105859; Trade pbk; Workman Pub Co (July 1998)
... Literally hundreds of people took the time and effort ... Thanks to all ... and Shira Rosan of the Fischer family ...
by Nancy Richler in Throwaway Angels
ISBN: 0889740623; Trade pbk; Press Gang Pub (April 1996)
Thanks to: ..., Shira Rosan, ...